Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Two major themes run through this fine collection of essays: the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to Christianity, and the re-animation of a rabbinic Judaism that would not manifest some of the deleterious social ideologies and practices that modern orthodox Judaism generally does, a project that was thought of as "radical orthodoxy." The material treated in the book should be of interest to historians of Judaism and Christianity, Talmudists, and scholars and readers interested in the cultural study of religion.

About the author

Daniel Boyarin, Ph.D. in Talmud, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, is currently Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent publications include, Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism (Stanford, 1999) and Border Lines: The Idea of Orthodoxy and the Partition of Christianity and Judaism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Boyarin
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9789004126282
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12628-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 244 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 717 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design